The likely Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency, Mitt Romney, is an ally and a friend of the Prime Minister of Israel. In other words, he supports a racist war criminal who is at the head of fascist government. “Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are”. If Romney is elected President, and I don't think he will be, he will prove to be much worse than either Ronald Regan or George W. Bush, because he is a fool who believes he is smart and who thinks he has meaningful ideas for U.S. foreign policy, on issues ranging from how to deal with Russia to the Middle East. However, he is only an Israeli mouthpiece, and may well drag his country to hopeless military confrontations that destroy what is left of its economy, and complete the march of the Bush administration, which fought wars on the sole basis of oil and Israeli interests. All of Romney's comments about the Middle East in recent months, which mostly focused on Iran, are identical to Netanyahu's comments. Indeed, if we replace one name with the other, no pundit would be able to notice the difference between the Israeli war criminal and the American ‘His Master's Voice'. I am not a fan of Iranian policy. The statements of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made on the occupied island of Abu Musa reflect a return to Persian nationalism. As such, Ahmadinejad spoke of the glories of the Persians, but he forgot that it was the Arabs who guided them to God when before that they had been pagans. Nevertheless, I am an even lesser fan of Romney's views on dealing with Iran. He spares no occasion to berate President Obama, and to accuse him of complacency in standing up to the Iranian nuclear weapons program (which doesn't really exist). What will Romney do if he becomes President? The Washington Post ran with an article by Romney last month, entitled “How I would check Iran's nuclear ambition”, in which he proposed following Reagan's “peace through strength” policy, pressing for ever-tightening sanctions, and restoring the regular presence of aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf region. Wow! How did Obama or the reader or even I not think of such measures? Briefly, I say that the neocons whose policies are represented by Romney did not leave the United States with any capacity to wage another war. As regards the sanctions, the Obama administration had tightened them regularly, and even imposed unilateral sanctions that no other country is implementing. In addition, with respect to aircraft carriers, Obama has indeed deployed another aircraft carrier in the Gulf with a supporting formation. Negotiations between the West and Iran in Turkey ended on a ‘positive' note, albeit I am certain that Iran attempts in every round of talks to buy time to find solutions. At any rate, Iran is most definitely not a threat to the United States, even if it were to possess a thousand nuclear warheads. Rather, the issue is Israel. Romney is a spokesman for Netanyahu, who knows very well that Iran poses no nuclear threat to Israel, be this now or in the near future. Instead, the Israeli Prime Minister uses this as an excuse to divert attention away from the Palestinian cause and the negotiations, while his neo-Nazi government occupies Palestinian homes in Jerusalem, displaces Palestinians, and builds more and more settlements. The New York Times said that Romney and Netanyahu have been friends since 1976, when they worked together at the Boston Consulting Group, and that they met again in Boston, New York and Jerusalem. The NYT also said that the two men call each other regularly and exchange advice. The NYT referred to the comment made by Newt Gingrich near the end of last year when he claimed that the Palestinians were an ‘invented people', for which Mr. Romney criticized Mr. Gingrich during a televised debate among the Republican contenders for the presidency, and said that before he made a statement of that nature, he would have consulted Netanyahu and asked him whether it would help if he said something of the sort or not. In other words, Romney was saying that he would delegate U.S. policy in the Middle East to Netanyahu, on the basis of what benefits or damages Israel, rather than having U.S. interests as the basis. Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Maariv ran an article entitled “Netanyahu's Obsession: Iran, Iran, Iran”. The author of the article said that an Israeli strike against Iran is likely to take place in autumn, specifically between September and November this year, with the odds being highest for October when the U.S. presidential elections precludes any of the candidates from taking any measures against Israel, and may even force them to support Israel for fear of Jewish money, which controls both the Republican and Democratic campaigns. I would have become worried, afraid and would have lost sleep over this, were it not for the fact that I still believe that Romney will lose the elections. [email protected]
